Card-cutting machine



No. 6|0,526. Patented Sept. 13, I898. H. P. FEISTER.

CARD CUTTING MACHINE.

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Patented Sept. I3, 1898. H; P. FEISTERQ CARD CUTTING MACHINE.

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HENRY P. FEISTER, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARD-CUTTIXNG MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,526, datedSeptembenB, 1898. 4

Application filed August 17, 1897. Serial No. 648,508- Nomodeld To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY P. FEISTER, of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improvement in Card-Cutting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention has reference to card-cutting machines; and it consists of the improvements which are fullyset forth in the follow-j ing specification and are shown in the accompanying drawings. 7

My invention relates particularly to machines for cutting the side edges of. cards or strips and is peculiarly adapted for beveling such side edges.

It is the object of my invention to enable cards or strips to be trimmed or beveled by machinery with rapidity and accuracy and to provide a machine for this purpose which shall be simple in construction, easy to operate, and readily adjustable to suit variations in the width of the cards or strips to be out.

In carrying out my invention I employ a guide-frame under which the cards or strips are fed and which acts to guide and support and burnish the card during the cutting operations, in combination with ro'tary cuttingdisks having their cutting edges arranged adjacent to the outer sides of the guideframe and acting in conjunction therewith to trim or bevel the side edges of the cards or strips as they pass under the guide-frame. To permit of adjustment to suit variations in the width of the cards or strips, this guide-frame is composed of two sections having provision for lateral adjustment, which may be accomplished by moving either one or both plates, and the cutters are also provided with provision for lateral adjustment to correspondwith the adjustment of the sections of the guide-frame...

' My invention also includes a machine having a series of such adjustable guides and cutters, adapted to simultaneously cut a series of cards or strips even when they are of different width. In this case the sheet of cardboard is passed through the machine and simultaneously cutby the several cutters, forming a series of beveled strips, which may be subsequently cuttransversely and beveled to form individual cards of the requisite length.

My invention includes certain featuresin the construction'of the guide-plate and-in the means for supporting and adjusting itj and in the combination therewith of the cutters, all of which are hereinafter specified in the claims.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a card-bevcling machine embodying my invention, with parts broken away and in section. Fig.2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional View of the sameon linel 1 of Fig. 1. spective view, enlarged, of the detached cardguiding clamps. Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig.

3. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are respectivelyan end,

0 O are a pair of feeding-rollers located atthe rear of the table or in an opening therein in front of the cutters and one above and one below the table, so that the card as it travels over the table will pass between them.

DD are a second pair of feed-rollers located in the rear of the cutters to receive the card as it passes from them.

The rollers O O and D D may be made of any convenient material and may, if desired, be faced with rubber, felt, or other suitable material.

The shafts of the rollers O O and D D are journaled in suitable bearings in the side frames A A and are geared together by gears O O and D D, respectively, by which they are driven.

E is a guide for the cardboard as it passes over the cutters, and is located in the rear of the feeding-rollers O O. This guide may be of any convenient construction. I prefer, however, to construct it, as shown, of two frames F F, carried by brackets G G and provided with flanges ff on they sides adjacent to the front and with flanges g g onthe sides adjacent to the rear. The flanges f f are preferably formed by angular plates H H, secured to the top of the frames F F by slotand-screw connections h, whereby adjust. ment to varythe space between the flanges Fig. 3 is a per ff may be obtained. WVhen the cards are to be beveled by the cutters, the. flanges g g at the rear of the frames F F are beveled to correspond with the bevel imparted to the card by the cutters.

To enable the frames F F to be adjusted vertically and also laterally to a slight extent, I prefer to make the brackets G G, which carry them, adjustable. For this purpose I have shown the brackets G Gsecured to heads I of bars J by slot 2'' and screw-connections 2' and the bars J carried in sleeves J of brackets K, carried by the main frame. The slotand-screw connections 2' permit the brackets and frames F F to be raised and lowered to a slight extent, and lateral adjustment may be obtained by moving the bars J in the sleeves J, in which they may be secured by setscrews j.

L L are the cutters, which are preferably disks carried on spindles journaled in sleeves L of the brackets K. For beveling the cards the disks are arranged in angular positions, as shown, so that their cutting edges will act at'an angle upon the edges of the cards. The disks are so disposed that their cutting edges act upon the edges of the cards between the fiangesfand g of the guide-frames F F.

Power is imparted to the cutter-spindles by means of gears M carried thereby and receiving power from gears N on the powershaft 0, which may be driven in any suitable manner.

Power may be imparted from the shaft 0 to the feeding-rollers C G and D D from a gear P carried thereby through intermediate gears P P 'I shall now explain the operation of the machine so far as it has been described. The cardboard strip Xis fed over the table B between the feeding-rollers O O and under the guide E, passing between the flanges ff of the frames F F, which are adjusted to suit the width of the card. The-frames F F support the card firmly while it is being fed under them,and the cutting-disks L L act upon the side edges of the card as it passes beyond the flanges ffand cutit. The cut portion of the card passes between the flanges g g at the rear of the frames F F, and guide it to the rolls D D. The side edges :1: m of the card or strip are thus beveled. The strip may then be out transversely into cards of the desired length, and these cards may then be arranged transversely and fed in succession between the rollers C O and under the guide E, when the cutters L L will act as before to cut the end edges y y. As the edges of the card are out between the rotary cutters L and the edges of the guide-plate E, in contact with which the edges of the card are pressed by the action of the cutters, the guide-plate adjacent to the edges performs a burnishing action upon the cut or beveled edge of the card and prevents the displacing of thematerial so as to form an uneven or irregular cut edge, and the side edges of the guide E coact as A A between the side frames A. Any suit-- able means may be employed for making this adjustment and for securing the adjustable bracket K in adjusted position. For this purpose I have shown the guide-frames A A provided with longitudinal slots at and the heads of the brackets K with clamping-screws 19, extending through the slots and engaging the bracket-heads. By means of these clamping-screws b the bracket K and the guideplate and cutter which it carries may be adjusted laterally. The gearwheel N, which engages the gear-Wheel M of the adjustable bracket, is keyed to the shaft 0 so as to slide longitudinally thereon, and a finger n on the adjustable bracket K engages a grooved sleeve 0 on the gear wheel N, so that the gearwheel N is moved laterally on the shaft 0 to preserve its driving connection with the gearwheel M on the adjustable bracket K when the bracket is adjusted.

The adjustable bracket may be moved in any suitable manner. For this purpose I have shown an adjusting-screw Q sleeved in one of the side frames A and engaging the adjustable bracket K, so that by the rotation of the screw Q through a hand-wheel Qor in any other manner the adjustable bracket K and the parts which it carries may be adjusted laterally. If desired, both brackets K may be made adjustable.

In the modification shown in Fig. 8 I have illustrated niy invention applied to a machine for simultaneously cutting several strips or cards. In this construction I employ a series of guides E, one for each strip or card and each composed of two frames F F, as inthe former construction described; but I have shown each frame F carried by a frame G, laterally adjustable upon guides of a transverse guide-frame A between the side frames A A and screwed in adjusted position by a slot a and clamping-screws b. The single sheet of cardboard is fed to all of the cutters sim ultaneously,so as to be divided into several strips having beveled sides. These strips are subsequently cut transversely to their length by being passed again. to the several cutters simultaneously in the same machine or in a second machine. In this manner I am enabled to produce in a cheap and expeditious manner cards having all four edges beveled. This manner of converting a whole sheet of card-stock: simultaneously into stripping and then subdividing the strips by feeding them sidewise to a gang of cutters is an important use of my invention. The plates F may be adjusted vertically by the adj Listing-screws F. One cutter L of each pair and the adjacent cutter L of the next pair are journaled in a common bracket R, which is adjustable transversely on a transverse guide frame or bar A and the corresponding gears N on the shaft 0, which rotate the cutters L through the gears M, are connected by a grooved sleeve S, which engages a tongue or lug s on the bracket It, so that by moving the brackets R laterally the two adjacent cutters of any two adjacent pairs of cutters may be appropriately adjusted with reference to the two other outters, and thus any or all of the cutters may be adjusted to suit a card or strip of any width and the machine as a whole may be adjusted to simultaneously cut strips of different widths.

The details of construction shown may be varied without departing from the invention.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. In a card-cutting machine, the combination of a stationary guide, in contact with which the card to be cut is fed, having its opposite sides formed to constitute stationary cutting edges, and rotating cutters having their cutting edges arranged to act in conjunction with the stationary cutting edges formed by'the opposite sides of the guide to simultaneously cut the opposite sides or edges of the card as it travels in contact with said guide.

2. In a card-cutting machine, the combination of a stationary guide, in contact with which the card to be cut is fed, provided upon its opposite sides with projections, between which the opposite sides or edges of the card are received and guided, as the card travels in contact with said guide, and cutters to cut the edges of the card as it travels in contact with said guide.

3. In a card-cutting machine, the combination of a stationary guide, in contact with which the card to be cut is fed, provided upon its opposite sides with projections, located both at the front and rear, between which the opposite sides or edges of the card are received and guided, as the card travels in contact with said guide, and cutters to cut the edges of the card as it travels in contact with said guide, located on each side between the projections of the guide.

4. In a card-cutting machine, the combination of a guide-frame under which the card to be cut passes composed of sections having provision for lateral adjustment with respect to each other, cutters arranged adjacent to said guide for cutting the edges of the card while itis passing under said guide-frame and having provision for lateral adjustment to correspond with the adjustment of the sections of the guide-frame, and feeding devices for feeding the card under said guideframe.

5. In a card-cutting machine, the combination of a guide-frame under which the card to be cut passes, provided on its sides adjacent to the front with depending projections between which the card travels, and with depending and internally-beveled projections adjacent to the rear, and cutters having their cutting edges arranged at an angle so as to cut the edges of the card on a bevel and located on each side between the projections at the front and rear, whereby the beveled edges of the card will pass from said cutters between the beveled projections at the rear of the guide-frame.

6. In a card-cutting machine, the combination of a guide-frame under which the card to be cut passes composed of two independent sections having provision for lateral adjustment with respect to one another and provided on their outer sides adjacent to the front with depending projections between which the card travels, and with depending and internally-beveled projections adjacent to the rear, and cutters having their cutting edges arranged at an angle so as to cut the edges of the card on a bevel and located ad jacent to said sections on each side between the projections at the front and rear, whereby the beveled edges of the card will pass from said cutters between the beveled projections at the rear of the guide-frame. i

7. In a card-cutting machine the combination of a guide-frame, under which the card to be cut passes, composed of two sections having provision for lateral adjustment with respect to one another, cutters having their cutting edges arranged adjacent to the side edges of said sect-ions so as to cut the edges of the card as it passes under said sections, a power-shaft, power-transmitting connections between the power-shaft and the cutters, and means for adjusting the cutters laterally to correspond with the adjustment of guideframe.

8. In a card-cutting machine, the combination of a guide-frame under which the card to be cut passes, composed of two sections, an adjustable bracket supporting one of said sections, and cutters having cutting edges arranged adjacent to the sides of the sections of the guide-frame, one of said cutters being carried by said adjustable bracket, whereby said section and the corresponding cutter may be simultaneously and correspondingly adj usted.

9. In a card-cutting machine, the combina tion of a guide-frame under which the card to be cut passes, composed of two sections, an adjustable bracket supporting one of said sections, and cutters having their cutting edges arranged adjacent to the sides of the sections of the guide-frame, one of said outters being carried by said adjustable bracket, whereby said section and the corresponding cutter may be simultaneously and correspondingiy adjusted, a power-shaft, adjustable gearing between the power-shaft and the adjustable cutter, and a connection between the adjustable bracket and the adjustable gearing,whereby said gearing will be adjusted simultaneously with the adjustment of the guide-frame section and cutter by the movementvof the adjustable bracket.

10. In a card-cutting machine, the combination of the longitudinal feeding-rollers, O, 0, between which the cards are fed, the guideframe located in the rear thereof under which the card passes from the guiderollers C, O, composed of two sections having provision for lateral adjustment, and the cutters having their cutting edges arranged adjacent to the outer side edges of the sections of the guideframe, and provided with provision for lateral adjustment to correspond with the adj ustment of the sections of the guide-fra'me.

11. In a card-cuttin g machine, the combination of the longitudinal feeding-rollers O, 0, between which the cards are fed, the guideframe located in the rear thereof under which the card passes from the guide rollers O, O, composed of two sections having provision for lateral adjustment, the cutters arranged adjacent to the outer edges of the sections of the guide-frame, and having provision for lateral adjustment to correspond with the adjustment of the sections of the guide-frame, and the longitudinal delivering-rollers D, D, located in the rear of the cutters to deliver the cut card.

12. In a cardcutting machine the guideframe under which the card passes while being cut, composed of the sections F, F, provided with the depending projections f, f, at

the front, and the depending internally-beveled projections g, g, at the rear, for guiding the card as it passes to and from the cutters.

13. In a card-cutting machine, the combination of a series of guides under which the card passes while being out, each composed of two sections having provision for lateral adjustment with respect to each other, and a series of cutters arranged in pairs with their cutting edges adjacent to the outer side edges of the sections of the guide-frames, and having provision for lateral adjustment to correspond with the adjustment of the guide-frames.

It. In a card-cutting machine, the combination of a series of guides under which the card passes while being out, each composed of two sections having provision for lateral adj ustment with respect to each other, and a series of cutters arranged in pairs with their cutting edges adjacent to the outer side edges of the sections of the guide-frames, and having provision for lateral adjustment to correspond with the adjustment of the guide frames, a

power-shaft, gearing between the power-shaft adapted to operate in conjunction with its lateral edge to trim the card simultaneously with the burnishing action of the guide-plate upon the face of the card adjacent to the edge being beveled.

In testimony of which invention I have hereunto set my hand.

HENRY P. FEISTER.

Witnesses:

BENJ. L. LEHMAN, CHARLES WANICH. 

